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Ohiodem

Reading these comments it sounds like none of those posting ever spent a day in the coke plant. That's today in America race to the bottom, who needs a vaction, who needs benifits, the employees should pay Severstal for the privaledge working in the coke plant. I'll bet most of you here are living off of government money.

readerx

Mountain State Carbon is NON-UNION right now. The union is trying to get it's foot in the door. The workers at this facility were union at one time until liquidation of RG steel. The local union was disbanded then. The workers now feel they do not need the union back in. Got it straight now?

Ragnar

You have a job with two weeks paid vacation, maintaining your current wages, seeing a 2% annual wage increase in years three and four and most likely have a decent health care plan and pension and you vote the contract proposal DOWN?

awavey

You have good jobs and want 5 weeks of vacation for hourly employees? Why not ask for catered lunches and a floor show every Friday? If...I mean when... they close it all down...employees will look back at this vote and wonder "Did we really do the right thing?"

TrollSlayer

Any Democrit would tell you it’s ok to extort those big pay and benefit increases from the business that sends you that paycheck every two weeks because, dammit, you’re worth it, shovel jockey. And if the company that feeds you ends up in bankruptcy and has to close because you shut it down, don’t worry, because all those more loyal employees paying all those income taxes will cover those Food Stamps and unemployment and welfare checks to keep you fat and happy... Derrrrrr....

GETACLUE

Any republican will tell you that these workers are way out of line and that these workers should just pay the company for the privilege of being able to work. Unions are such a terrible thing how dare those workers band together.